Ajay Relan
Austin Clements
Slauson & Co.
Austin Clements
Austin Clements is co-founder and Managing Partner at Slauson & Co., a Los Angeles based early-stage venture capital firm rooted in economic inclusion. Slauson & Co. is proudly backed by some of the world’s most influential tech companies such as Google, Meta, Twitter, PayPal, and others. At Slauson, Austin focuses on investing in technologies that empower small business owners.
Prior to this role, Austin was at TenOneTen Ventures, a data focused seed fund based in LA. He has also worked in investment management and founded a mobile app development firm to serve small businesses.
Austin is the founding Chair of PledgeLA, the nation’s largest city-wide initiative to promote diversity in the local tech community. He has served on the board of Knight Foundation and HBCUvc. Austin received his MBA from NYU Stern and his BA from Morehouse College.
Ajay Relan
Ajay Relan is an investor, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior to Slauson & Co., Ajay was a founding Partner at Queensbridge Venture Partners. With a keen focus on brand building and storytelling, Ajay's passion lies in identifying trends and engineering culturally aligned brands.
A lifelong Angeleno, Ajay has established a business portfolio grounded in community. His most recent collaboration, Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen, has become a staple, facilitating productivity and collaboration in diverse neighborhoods across Los Angeles.
In 2012, Ajay founded #HashtagLunchbag, a grassroots movement that has fed 1,000,000+ hungry and unhoused people in 150+ cities around the globe. He went on to establish the Living Through Giving Foundation, a non-profit platform empowering the creation of programs engaging diverse groups of people to contribute to various causes in their local communities.
Ajay is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara.
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